Chapter Seventy-Six: Scouting
Three small two-storey buildings are close together.
The door was wide open, and the room was empty.
There was no blood, and there was no sign of a battle.
Judging by the bits and pieces scattered all over the place.
The villagers of this settlement must have been lucky to escape.
Mo Qianxing breathed a long sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the worst didn't happen.
She picked up a crested ibis doll with a red beak and a white body and patted the dust off it. ”
"Judging by the amount of dust, they left about a month ago. “
Bai Chen agreed with her judgment, and he pointed to the small platform outside the house near the cliff: "It should be used to leave with a flying mount." It's a small take-off and landing field. “
The man-made object they had seen before was the reflection caused by the take-off and landing field supported by metal columns.
Mo Qianxing opened each room one by one, carefully inspected it, and after confirming that there was no movement, he hung the crested ibis doll on the pillar used to tie the flying mount in the take-off and landing field.
She and Bai Chen continued to make their way to the top of the mountain.
"Now that everyone is gone, what's the matter with this young man?"
Mo Qianxing was very puzzled.
Bai Chen shrugged: "It's hard to say, maybe it's a passerby who ran to the crater lake to get water, maybe it's a mountain man who wants to sneak back here to get something, or maybe it's an unlucky child found in the forest when the brain-eating spiders came down the mountain to hunt." ”
There are so many possibilities.
Nor could he tell what the truth was.
"Alas. ”
Mo Qianxing sighed.
In any case, the boy who died made her very sad.
She followed Bai Chen to the height of one-third of the mountain.
Bai Chen stopped abruptly.
"I feel the spider's webs of the spider's psionic energy. ”
Mo Qianxing's eyes widened in surprise.
Is this perception really human?
She adjusts her breathing and forces herself into a state of calm.
As she pushed her spiritual sense to the extreme.
Finally less than a meter away from the top of Bai Chen's head.
Found a large web of insect psionic energy hidden in the chaotic psionic environment around it, which is invisible to the naked eye.
If it weren't for Bai Chen's reminder.
She's probably going to be stupid and go headlong into it.
Mo Qianxing's beautiful eyes flashed with a strange brilliance, and finally turned into a determined look.
She must get Bai Chen into her hunting group.
Bai Chen moved parallel beyond the range of the psionic cobweb.
After repeated observations.
He returned to Mo Qianxing, picked up a piece of rubble, and drew a map of the covered psychic web of the simple spider queen on the mountain wall.
"Judging by the psionic fluctuations of the psionic spider web, the direction of the spider silk, and the data behind the brain-eating spider. “
"With the abandoned mine as the center, it covers a large fan of about 1,400 meters and 270 degrees in diameter. “
"According to the previous information of the mine, its nest should be between fifty and one hundred meters within the range of the cave entrance. “
"Calculated from the strength and coverage of psionic energy fluctuations, the good news is that it is currently barely maintained at the sixth order. “
"The bad news is that it has just laid eggs, and although its strength is at a low point, its vigilance has reached its peak. ”
"In order to protect the eggs, it does not go through the usual morning and twilight bathing. ”
"Our only chance is a full moon tonight. ”
Mo Qianxing's beautiful eyes widened, and she couldn't understand at all how Bai Chen could judge so much information with a spiritual cobweb.
But: "Now that the villagers have been evacuated, can we evacuate?"
There were no tragic incidents, and she decided to play it safe.
Bai Chen, whose face was heavy, shook his head.
"The brain-eating spider will only lay eggs in one situation, and that is when it catches enough food to get it through the ten days of weakness after spawning. The best tonic for it is the human brain. Although I don't know exactly where it caught people, according to my calculations, there are at least nine people in its nest at the moment, as its reserve food. ”
"Start with the previous teenager and blot one a day until it passes the weak phase. ”
"Not only can we not leave, we must settle it by midnight tonight. ”
"Otherwise, it will suck up the second person's brain by the wee hours of tomorrow morning. ”
Bai Chen's voice was full of solemnity.
The last thing he wanted to see happened.
Nine people in the brain-eating spider's rear nest after laying eggs need to be rescued.
"You wait here, I'll touch it and see. ”
Although most brain-eating spiders now stay in their nests, guarding their weakened queens and protecting their eggs.
But Bai Chen still didn't want to risk Mo Qianxing being discovered.
Once found after being spidered.
It is very likely that the suspicious queen spider will not even bathe in the moonlight that can help it digest the human brain during the full moon.
"Understood, you are careful. ”
Although Mo Qianxing, who understood the severity of the situation, wanted to continue with Bai Chen, she still retreated five meters below the psionic cobweb, hiding behind a protruding mountain rock.
Bai Chen took a deep breath.
The Void Energy formed an energy shield on his body that was thinner than a hair, covering all of his breath.
Although he was clearly standing in front of him, Bai Chen suddenly disappeared in Mo Qianxing's spiritual vision.
"It's really a blood vein of jealousy. “
She muttered as Bai Chen walked to the top of the mountain.
Half an hour later, Bai Chen, who was in the leeward, cautiously poked his head out.
There are about dozens of acres of crater lakes with calm waters.
A steam airship appears in the reflection of the lake.
He stared intently.
I saw that on the shore of the lake not far from the mine, an airship powered by a small psionic steam engine that could accommodate more than a dozen people was quietly moored on the rocky beach.
The airship has an ancient shape, and the top airbag skin is covered with patches of all sizes.
The main frame under the airbag is rusty, and the manned structure of the belly is full of various components that have been modified to fit this psionic chaotic mountainous area.
"Was it an accident caused when fetching water, or did you deliberately come to clean up the spider, but you were killed by the spider?"
Combined with the previous teenager and a variety of non-standard weapons left behind after the fierce battle outside the airship.
Bai Chen leaned towards the latter.
Most of the residents who were unwilling to be forced to leave their homes in the abandoned mine cave occupied by the brain-eating spider gathered a boatload of mountain hunters who came to take revenge.
Unfortunately, they don't know the characteristics of brain-eating spiders.
Swaggering down from the sky.
As a result, they were wiped out.
Everyone, dead or alive, was dragged into the mine lair by them.
The trail of the airship dragging on the ground of the mine proves this.
In the perception brought by Bai Chen's Great Void Cultivation Method, he "saw" the eight fourth-order brain-eating spiders lurking in the airship, as well as a human life fluctuation as a bait.
"It's cunning. He actually used human captives to set a trap. ”
Bai Chen was very calm.
He didn't have the idea of going down to save people.
Judging by the breath of life of this unlucky guy in the airship.
He had no problem living for three or five days.
The queen is the most important target.
Just as Bai Chen was about to return.
Fifty meters away, at the edge of the mountain pass, an abnormal air movement suddenly appeared.